I can't remember the title or characters so here we go. Young adult book series with female protagonist in high school who turns into a vampire (missing several days of school). Her father comes to live with her because he is a vampire. The female protagonist's love interest is a guy who's family...

Stephen Hawking played himself (as a hologram) in TNG S06E26 "Descent" in 1993 Dolly Parton played herself (also as a hologram) in The Orville (S03E08) in 2022 Haven any other people played themselves in a science fiction series or film (hologram or otherwise)?

what i remember of the plot is this: the MC is a boy, not very old, got transported to another world to fight demon lords. You’re introduced to a couple heros that fight with MC, they’re all on the cover. you’re made to believe this is just a run of the mill hero manga. However, when MC goes to f...

I read this in the very early 80s and it was a fairly new book then. It was one of the tall books for kids that was so popular then. It was about a boy who moved onto a farm out in the country. His family might have had to move in with his grandparents but I am not sure on this. The boy was told ...

This is the second book from my childhood that I can not find or recall the exact title of. It was written sometime in the 80s.It was a large but slim hardcover book.It was about a girl whose parents adopted a girl from an orphanage in Vietnam a few years after the war ended. The adoptee had lost...

This is the second book from my childhood that I can not find or recall the exact title of. It was written sometime in the 80s.It was a large but slim hardcover book.It was about a girl whose parents adopted a girl from an orphanage in Vietnam a few years after the war ended. The adoptee had lost...

This post is for the first SFF.SE topic challenge of 2023, in which the site's community is encouraged to take part together in asking and answering questions on a particular topic each month. According to community votes on the topic challenge proposals thread, the January 2023 topic challenge i...

Found a book series that I have forgotten the title of. MC was a prince who was sent to a monastery to learn the family skill of being emotionless. Family has the trait of fiery eyes. Teacher buries him up to his neck in the ground. Brother trains with elite military group, gains shadow eyes from...

Trudi Canavan's Black Magician series, starting with The Magicians' Guild and continuing with the first trilogy and then a prequel novel and sequel trilogy, is set in a purely fantasy world consisting of several countries such as Kyralia, Sachaka, Elyne, etc. Are these countries in any way inspir...

I've seen many episodes of The Next Generation. One plot point seems to consistently occur. A crew member is "not themselves" in one of the following ways: Telepathically controlled (often Troi) Controlled by unknown parts of their programming (Data) Entirely replaced by someone else (usually Pi...

In Wednesday, Pugsley is beat up by bullies, picked on by Wednesday, and seems to be pretty much normal. I have previously only seen the cartoon versions of The Addams Family and the 90's movie with Doc Brown as Uncle Fester, but all of them gave me the feeling that Pugley was probably the type t...

do you have any idea what this little black box is on nedry's desk? I think it's a computer peripheral but I can't identify what it is? It opens with a glazed part on top. On another part of the film it is open and it looks like it can accommodate some kind of tape or something? Thank you all for...

In Goblet of Fire Dobby tells Harry how he is greatful to Dumbledore for giving him a job at Hogwarts ,and even agreeing to pay him. He says how it is hard for house elves to get a job once their family expells them. I don't really understand why that is. In Chamber of Secrets there is a scene wh...

I'm looking for the title & author of a novel that I read in the 1970's. It's about a government spy who can teleport chasing a rebel telepathic spy who can also teleport throughout the galaxy. It's a cat and mouse novel with a very clever twist at the end. The book had a yellow cover if I rem...

In the list of establishments on the Terrok DS9 promenade we find the "Chief Engineer's Office" at 01-409. Why would the station's Chief Engineer have their office on the promenade? And - does he really? I don't recall seeing O'Brien in such an office, or going into or coming out of it. Or maybe ...

In the Netflix miniseries The Witcher: Blood Origin there is a symbol at the start of each episode. What do these symbols mean?

In the last couple of years, I read an SF book in which a conquering general negotiates a surrender from a conquered world - in exchange for an end to resistance, the defeated planet's cultural records would be preserved. After the treaty is signed and the rebels disarm, the general takes posses...

I rereember a late 20th century story, possibly in Analog, maybe in Asimov's, about an expedtion in search of "glory rings". In the story, "glory rings" were rings of smallish objects orbiting stars or planets in young star systems. Soeme process would cause the small objects in the rings to be ...

In the Netflix mini series The Witcher: Blood Origins we see the names of places written in some different language what language is it? The English translation of it is given below